Password Managers: How to avoid a guessable password – By Sujata Choudhury officenewz.com

Over the last few months, the intensity of cyberattacks has increased manifold. Work from home has pushed many people to use their devices to connect to office systems. This has left office infrastructure vulnerable, leaving space for hackers to deploy malware. While this has increased the demand for antivirus suites and software, one area which often remains exposed is passwords. With multiplicity of accounts people tend to keep the same password over all services.

Password Managers: How to avoid a guessable password – By Sujata Choudhury officenewz.com

Over the last few months, the intensity of cyberattacks has increased manifold. Work from home has pushed many people to use their devices to connect to office systems. This has left office infrastructure vulnerable, leaving space for hackers to deploy malware. While this has increased the demand for antivirus suites and software, one area which often remains exposed is passwords. With multiplicity of accounts people tend to keep the same password over all services.

Setting up Two-Factor Authentication – By support.discord.com

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA for short) is a good way to add an extra layer of security to your Discord account to make sure that only you have the ability to log in.

3 tips from NIST to keep your passwords secure – By Gary Orenstein bitwarden.com

Our daily lives take place increasingly online. That brings a need to create and maintain dozens, if not hundreds of online accounts, each with logins and passwords.

5 Password Manager Perks You Might Not Be Using – By Eric Ravenscraft wired.com

You may know by now that you need a secure password manager. The best password is one even you don’t remember, but if you’re not used to using a password manager, it can seem daunting to set one up (and change all your passwords if you’ve been using weak ones). To sweeten the deal, there are a number of extra features that most popular password managers come with that can make the effort even more worthwhile.

Questions from a group member:

I am looking for information on tracking software and tracking prevention. I get several emails or adds after I search for an item – recently, a frying pan. I understand that somehow "they' know I may be interested in a pan, but don't know-how. Does tracking prevention keep me from getting multiple adds/emails for that pan? So how can a low-tech person like me avoid these trackers?

I got these questions a few weeks ago form one of our group members. I tried to answer, but it isn't easy to get your head around. Just this week, one of the podcasts I follow did a segment on this very subject. They also gave links to the promotional videos of the company GetEmails uses to promote their tracking software to web site owners,

• Smashing Security podcast, the segment is about 10 minutes long.
• Permission Shmarketing #8: How does GetEmails work? YouTube video
• Some say we're criminals. Many say we're unethical. We think we're geniuses. But we're so, so bad… YouTube video